Registered Veterinary Nurse

Vets for Pets; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 32,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in pet healthcare is seeking a dedicated veterinary nurse to join their friendly team in Maidstone. This role offers the chance to fully utilize your nursing skills while providing excellent care to a variety of cases. With a focus on professional development, you will have access to generous CPD opportunities and a supportive work environment. Enjoy flexible working hours and a competitive salary, along with numerous perks including discounts and a contributory pension scheme. If you are passionate about delivering outstanding pet healthcare, this is the opportunity for you!

Benefits

Competitive salary

Welcome bonus

Generous CPD funding

Social events

Wellbeing emphasis

Contributory pension schemes

Paid memberships

Exclusive discounts

Qualifications

• Ability to monitor anaesthetics and perform schedule 3 procedures.
• Experience in admitting and discharging patients.

Responsibilities

• Utilize nursing skills to admit, monitor, and discharge patients.
• Assist in routine surgeries and manage patient care.

Skills

Nursing Skills

Anaesthetic Monitoring

Patient Care

Surgical Assistance

Education

Veterinary Nursing Qualification

Tools

Digital X-ray

Ultrasound

Job description

Maidstone Vets for Pets is a standalone practice offering you the environment, caseload and equipment needed to utilise the skills you have gained whilst also giving you plenty of opportunity to develop further.

You’ll be joining a talented and friendly clinical team as well as a fantastic supportive non-clinical team. Growing, developing and retaining talent within our team is important to us, with multiple colleagues with 10-18 years’ service with us and our CCA team working towards BVRA accreditation!

By joining us you will have the opportunity to use your nursing skills to their full potential, admitting patients, monitoring anaesthetics, performing schedule 3 procedures, recovering, and discharging patients. Assistance from VCAs and an SVN with turning around theatre, patient prep.

We see a wide variety of cases in the practice and carry out all routine surgery as well as soft tissue and some basic orthopaedics. We have all the usual toys including digital X-ray and ultrasound, and we will certainly consider the purchase of further specialist equipment should it benefit the team and practice.

This position can be fully flexible hours, full or part time, with 1 in 4 weekends on a fair rota basis.

In return, we can offer you:

• Competitive salary up to £32,000 FTE + £1,000 welcome bonus on completion of probation
• No OOH or overnight in patient checks
• Generous CPD (including funded Certificates)
• Social events and emphasis on wellbeing
• Contributory pension schemes
• Paid memberships (RCVS, BVNA, VDS)
• Exclusive company and high street discounts and rewards

If you share our passion for delivering outstanding pet healthcare and great customer service, then we would love to hear from you!

Benefits:
In return, we offer benefits such as 20% discount at the Vet Group, Pets at Home and the Groom Room, access to discounts and cashbacks, in-house career development opportunities, pension and holiday allowance.

Location: ME15 9BY

Pets just see people. They aren’t biased and they don’t discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect difference in all its forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can help us achieve this. We encourage our people to be themselves so even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you!